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    U.S. President Barack Obama’s eldest daughter Malia will attend Harvard University in the fall of 2017 after taking a year off from studies following her high school graduation this spring, the White House said on Sunday.

    “Malia will take a gap year before beginning school,” a White House statement said, breaking a months-long silence about Malia’s college search.

    Both her parents attended Harvard Law School.

    Malia, 17, will concentrate on finishing her high school final exams before considering how to spend her gap year, an official who had been briefed on Malia’s decision told Reuters.

    She has shown interest in film and television, having worked two summer internships in the industry. Last summer, she worked in Brooklyn, New York, on the set of the HBO series “Girls.”

    In 2014 she worked on the set of CBS science fiction series “Extant,” starring Halle Berry. The now-canceled series was produced by Steven Spielberg, a prominent donor to Obama’s presidential campaigns.

    Harvard College, the university’s undergraduate division, said on its admissions website that it encouraged admitted students to defer enrollment for one year to travel, pursue a project or work. About 80 to 110 students did so each year, it said.

    President Obama said on Monday that he’s proud of his daughter Malia, but that he will “miss her terribly” when she’s gone.

    “This is my first one leaving and my daughters are wonderful, and one of the great pleasures of being in the White House is because I live above the store, I’ve been able to spend every night that I’m in town with them,” he said in an interview.

    When she arrives at Harvard, Malia will join a long list of presidential children who have attended, including John Quincy Adams and his son, John Adams II; Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert; the sons of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt; Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of John F. Kennedy; and George W. Bush, who went to business school there.

    (SD-Agencies)